Mount Pleasant township, Whiteside County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Mount Pleasant township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
57% of Mount Pleasant township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 70% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 53% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3810
- Northeast: 113
- Midwest: 1038
- South: 140
- West: 69
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $57,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Mount Pleasant township, Illinois:
- 163 people in nursing homes
- 102 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 100 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,748
- One, attached: 38
- Two: 154
- 3 or 4: 79
- 5 to 9: 102
- 10 to 19: 31
- Mobile homes: 64
Median worth of mobile homes: $12,000
Housing units in Mount Pleasant township with a mortgage: 827 (69 second mortgage, 151 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 628
- Metal and metal products (14%)
- Construction (13%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (12%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Mount Pleasant township:
- German (28.3%)
- Dutch (25.6%)
- English (9.2%)
- United States or American (8.1%)
- Irish (7.9%)
- Swedish (3.8%)
- Polish (1.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Poland (67%)
- Netherlands (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,888 (80%)
- Carpooled: 295 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 6 (0%)
- Bicycle: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 134 (6%)
- Other means: 16 (1%)
- Worked at home: 24 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (74%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
People in group quarters in Mount Pleasant township, Illinois:
- 163 people in nursing homes
- 102 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 100 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
97.6% of residents of Mount Pleasant township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (82% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,825- In family households: 4,050 (1,191 male householders, 225 female householders)
1,148 spouses, 1,322 children (1,106 natural, 86 adopted, 130 stepchildren), 25 grandchildren, 27 brothers or sisters, 14 parents, 29 other relatives, 69 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 775 (263 male householders (207 living alone)), 425 female householders (400 living alone)), 87 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 375 (277 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 752 2-persons, 293 3-persons, 207 4-persons, 119 5-persons, 45 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 607 1-person, 69 2-persons, 12 3-persons,
846 married couples with children.
273 single-parent households (61 men, 212 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 23
| Here: | 4.0% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 110
| Here: | 44.7% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |